The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

Many colonial settlers came to Delaware from Maryland and Virginia, which had been experiencing a population boom.

As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony.

In his opinion, those born between the periods of 1947-1966 were the Baby Boomers, where in Canada they were the largest boom of the industrialized world ( relative to population ).

Countries with an aging population, or with a baby boom, experience increasing pre-tax Gini coefficient even if real income distribution for working adults remain constant.

Ireland experienced a major population boom in the 18th and early 19th centuries, as did the rest of Europe as a result of the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions, and at the time had comparable population densities to Britain and Europe.

The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that was an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861.

The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom.

If it were to make its way into wild populations in areas such as Australia, it could create a population boom, as those diseases are the most serious threats to rabbit survival.

The population of Spain doubled during the twentieth century as a result of the spectacular demographic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

The evolutionary pressure of the high relatedness in the context of a post-glaciation population boom may have been sufficient to overcome the reproductive cost of forming a complex animal, for the first time in Earth's history.

In the 1890s, interstate migration resulting from a mining boom in the Goldfields region resulted in a sharp population increase.

The first decade of the 20th century was the period of the coal boom in South Wales, when population growth exceeded 20 per cent.

Washington county has experienced a population boom, and is one of the fastest growing counties in the country, due to an influx of people from the Washignton-Baltimore metropolitan areas.

Since 2000, however, an oil boom has increased the population by at least 1, 000.

Miami prospered during the 1920s with an increase in population and infrastructure but weakened after the collapse of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, the 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Since the 1980s there has been a boom in the exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest for mining, logging and cattle ranching, posing a severe threat to the region's indigenous population.

The population has increased greatly during the last few decades as a consequence of internal migration from other Departments of Paraguay, at first because of the economic boom in the 1970s, and later because of economic recession in the countryside.

However, if observed over a longer period of time, it is seen that the population of a predator will correlationally rise and fall with the population of its prey in a cycle similar to the boom and bust cycle of economics.

In parallel, large industrial and commercial zones evolved ; employment increased rapidly ; the population rose sharply, and the building boom skyrocketed.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

For both economic and political reasons all segments of the population must be able to share in the growth of a country.

Talking of the rapid population growth ( upwards of 12,000 babies born daily ) with an immigrant entering the United States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said `` our organization has not been keeping pace with this challenge ''.

The potato chip industry these days is growing, not only as a result of population increase and public acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination of circumstances that has led to growth by merger.

The Nassau system recognizes that its major task it to broaden reference service, what with the constant expansion of education and knowledge, and the pressure of population growth in a metropolitan area.

The 1960 census underscored the explosive character of the population growth.

The Demographics of Armenia is about the demographic features of the population of Armenia, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.

It was this high degree of agricultural productivity in the south that enabled the growth of the highest population densities in the world at this time, giving Akkad its military advantage.

A growth in population during the 16th Century led to taller buildings and denser construction methods.

Thirdly, population growth was absorbed by neighboring municipalities in the regional urban area, and numerous citizens of Aarau moved into the countryside.

The high industrialization led to high population growth in the 18tf century, for example between 1764 – 98, the population grew by 35 %, far more than in other parts of the canton.

After World War II, this formerly agrarian region saw striking growth and became the district with the largest and densest population in the Canton ( 110, 000 in 1990, 715 persons per km2 ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

Ajmer's population growth in the decade was 18. 48 %, this compares to a growth figure of 20. 93 % for the previous decade.

Current hypotheses suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.

The albinistic are generally as healthy as the rest of the population ( but see related disorders below ), with growth and development occurring as normal, and albinism by itself does not cause mortality, although the lack of pigment blocking ultraviolet radiation increases the risk of skin cancer and other problems.

Industrialisation resulted in rapid population growth during the nineteenth century, as people moved from over north-west England to Accrington, with the population increasing from 3, 266 in 1811 to 10, 376 in 1851 to 43, 211 in 1901 to its peak in 1911 at 45, 029.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and has a total population of 594, 582 as of 1 January 2008, which ranks it as the fourth most populous in Belgium.

In the late 1980s, statistics revealed that the daytime or commuter population of downtown Seoul was as much as six times the officially registered population.

Rail Transport in Sri Lanka consists of a heavy-rail intercity network connecting major population centres and commuter rail serving Colombo commuter traffic.

Since independence, urbanization has sprawled eastward past Pikine, a commuter suburb whose population ( 2001 est.

Milngavie is a commuter town, with much of its working population travelling to Glasgow to work or study.

The population growth was caused by the county's proximity to Atlanta and its appeal as a commuter area for people working in the Atlanta area.

The city is one of several surrounding Louisville, Kentucky that have experienced a sharp rise in population in the past two decades, becoming a commuter town.

This was an essential transportation link for the village, especially for the growing commuter population.

Formerly a largely rural and agrarian community, the town now lies well within the " travel to work " radius of Morpeth and Newcastle Upon Tyne and has a sizeable commuter population.

The town's late 20th century population growth has been mostly as a commuter community for people with jobs in Seattle, Bellevue, and other suburban centers.

Lacey became a commuter town for Olympia, Fort Lewis and to some extent, Tacoma ; in recent years, however, business developments, community groups, and population growth have led Lacey to develop into a city in its own right.

Through the 1960s and 1970s the community turned into a commuter town due to its proximity to Copenhagen and the population expanded past 10, 000.

This election remains controversial today, as the city had a much smaller population in the 1980s, and the lack of membership in DART will likely prevent the city from participating in the planned Cotton Belt commuter rail system.

Its rise in population mirrors its rise in popularity as a coastal commuter town.

The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of with a total population of 522, 522 by January 1, 2008, ranking it as the 5th most populous in Belgium after Brussels, Antwerp, Liège and Ghent.

The urban area has a population of 7, 864 ( 2006 census ) and with improved road and rail since the mid 1980s, has developed significant student and worker commuter traffic with Cork city.

For example, a metropolitan county is one that contains an urbanized area, or one that has a twenty-five percent commuter rate to an urbanized area regardless of population.

From Waterloo, SWT's London terminus, long-distance trains run to southern England, including the major coastal population centres of Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth ; the company also operates many local services on suburban commuter lines in south-west London and Surrey.

It had a resident population of 3, 105, 798 as of 2001, excluding the huge commuter traffic from neighbouring districts.

The town saw its largest population growth in the 1990s when the Old Colony Railroad was reopened as a commuter rail line, connecting once-rural Kingston with Boston, making Kingston an even more viable place for commuters to live.